Tag: science fiction
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Review: Sunshine
Scene from Sunshine Aside from the original Night of the Living Dead, I full on loathe zombie films. The plots are always the same, a virus (or magic) turns people into perpetual-motion flesh eating things. Big whoop. That was until the independent film 28 Days Later came out and reinvented zombies. Only these weren’t walking-dead,…
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Happy Birthday Isaac Asimov!
Isaac Asimov Author or editor of over 500 books, including the incredible Foundation Series and I, Robot books. I was led to Asimov by my favorite author at the time, Kurt Vonnegut, who lavished much praise on his prolific friend. Asimov and Vonnegut are now equal in my eyes, Vonnegut for his humanity, Asimov for…
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Review: Bladerunner, The Final Cut
Blade Runner The Final Cut I watched Blade Runner, The Director’s Cut for the upteenth time Monday, appreciating the film’s flaws, and speculating on which ones Ridley Scott would clean up with the final, digitally-remastered version. Of course, all the silliness that made the original theatrical release of Blade Runner a total flop would stay…
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Happy Birthday Sir Arthur C. Clark!
Sir Arthur C. Clarke Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera The knighted science fiction author turns 90 years old today. His book 2001: A Space Odyssey was made into a very trippy, far-out and visually stunning film, but also one that left out so many of the important plot elements that made Clarke’s novel so great. All…
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Published at the SCQ! Science Fiction VS Fantasy
“Chosen One” Archtype The Science Creative Quarterly has posted an abrieviated version of my Science Fiction VS Fantasy article. The picture to the right didn’t make the cut, neither did 90% of section II for being contradictory, and neither did some of my more juvenile, however insightful observations about Conan not wiping his butt. So…
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Happy Birthday Kurt Vonnegut!
Kurt Vonnegut Photo by Ryan Somma He would be 85 today. This great writer survived the firebombing of Dresden, wrote dozens of books and short stories, and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association. Although he objected to the description, Vonnegut wrote many science fiction stories. In his book Cat’s Cradle, he came up…
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“The Noble Mutant” posted at Oort-Cloud
DNA Helix worked out by James Watson and Francis Crick in Cambridge. I’ve posted a science fiction short story, The Noble Mutant, to Oort-Cloud. Here’s a snippet: “Technically you’re a parasite,” I shot back. “You implant fertilized eggs in the female uterus, a clone of yourself. You’re like a cuckoo, putting your egg inside another…